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If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than useless.
Dennis Prager
Good
Religion
You
Good And Evil
Evil
Worse
Between
Than
Difference
Teach
Your
Useless
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
George Matthew Adams
Character
Man
Soul
Genius
Money
Unhappy
Nothing
Remain
Talent
Greater
Fame
Friends
Than
Die
May
Bankrupt
Useless
Comparatively
Compare
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.
Lin Yutang
You
Live
Spend
Perfectly
Learned
How
Afternoon
Manner
Useless
It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
Great
Silence
Words
Better
Word
Great Deal
Value
Few
Say
Silent
More
Throw
Hazard
Sooner
Wither
Deal
Idle
Than
Little
Useless
Many
Things
Pearl
Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Time
Knowledge
You
Before
Depend
Every
Addition
Out
Something
Facts
Highest
Knew
Importance
Forget
Useful
Useless
Therefore
The entire educational process must be carried out with love, which is perceptible in every disciplinary measure and which does not instill any fear. And the most effective educational method is not the word of instruction but the living example without which all words remain useless.
Edith Stein
Love
Words
Fear
Word
Example
Living
Every
Carried
Out
Must
Entire
Remain
Instill
Most
Instruction
Disciplinary
Without
Does
Method
Educational
Effective
Any
Process
Which
Measure
Useless
Not only was it nearly impossible to hear because of these huge rubber ears we had to wear, but we also had these huge furry hands which were absolutely useless, especially if you had to scratch yourself.
Helena Bonham Carter
You
Yourself
Impossible
Ears
Furry
Wear
Only
Absolutely
Had
Also
Because
Were
Hear
Huge
Hands
Scratch
Which
Useless
Nearly
Rubber
A useless life is an early death.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Life
Death
Useless
Early
It's useless to play lullabies for those who cannot sleep.
John Cage
Those
Cannot
Useless
Who
Play
Sleep
I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.
Marlon Brando
Life
Regret
Past
Think
Useless
Belongs
A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
Good
Car
Manners
Else
Good Manners
Everywhere
New
York
Same
Essential
New York
Useless
I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.
Peter Stone
Man
Law
Three
Become
Congress
Law Firm
More
Firm
Come
Conclusion
Disgrace
Useless
Two
No man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Man
He
Friend
While
Useless
To be stupid and selfish and to have good health are the three requirements for happiness. Though if stupidity is lacking, the others are useless.
Stefan Sagmeister
Happiness
Health
Good
Good Health
Selfish
Stupidity
Three
Stupid
Others
Though
Lacking
Requirements
Useless
This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice.
Victor Davis Hanson
Hope
Enemies
Victory
Sacrifice
Past
Enough
Further
Battered
No Hope
Only
Thus
Cease
Bloody
Acknowledge
Us
Means
Useless
Resistance
A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.
Adoniram Judson
Life
Day
Will
Marked
Once
Spent
Marks
Indelible
Has-Been
Remain
Through
Never
Contemplated
Said
Been
Sins
Forever
Improved
Same
May
Eternity
Stand
Useless
Each
Each Day
Ever
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Work
Art
Man
World
Not Perfect
Pressure
Live
Harmony
Must
Would
Would-Be
Some
Perfect
Never
Simply
Ideal
Look
Sort
Because
Were
His
Exist
Existed
Conditions
Exists
Artist
Useless
Works
Vacuum
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
Darryl F. Zanuck
Time
Disagree
Job
Men
Both
Then
Useless
Agree
Two
I don't want to be an apologist for poverty, but I can't stand waste, useless spending, wasted energy and having to live squandering stuff.
Jose Mujica
Poverty
Energy
Live
Spending
Having
Stuff
Squandering
Want
Stand
Useless
Waste
Wasted
It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.
Lord Byron
You
Man
Believe
Tell
Well
Wake
Might
Reason
Useless
Sleep
Ability without honor is useless.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honor
Ability
Without
Useless
If everyone were clothed with integrity, if every heart were just, frank, kindly, the other virtues would be well-nigh useless.
Moliere
Integrity
Heart
Every
Other
Everyone
Virtues
Frank
Would
Would-Be
Kindly
Were
Just
Clothed
Useless
Every Heart
Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.
Montesquieu
Weaken
Laws
Useless
Necessary
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.
Nellie Bly
Good
Morning
Woman
Doctor
Judge
Will
Imagination
Sick
Say
Release
Good Morning
Merely
Know
Bidding
Answer
How
Hear
Refusing
Anything
Sanity
Useless
Even
Her
All art is quite useless.
Oscar Wilde
Art
Quite
Useless
I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless.
Paul Kagame
Me
Rights
Problems
Human Rights
Think
Out
Moral
Facing
Because
Came
Were
Accusation
Whatsoever
Any
Human
Anybody
Against
Organisations
Congo
Useless
Media
Right
Level
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